Is the Equal Sign Overrated? Mathematicians Hash It Out
Many of them avoid the equal sign, hoping to promote a looser relationship of “equivalence” instead. It's been controversial.
https://www.wired.com/story/is-the-equal-sign-overrated-mathematicians-hash-it-out/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=wired&utm_social-type=earned … via @wired
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It’s a slippery slope. I'm worried ≈ will be marginalised. And ≡ completely forgotten.
true .. in my opinion ≡ > := , though the latter does contain my syntactical info
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but man do I love me a good ≈
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